I moved to Duisburg-Hochfeld in December 2017. This quarter in the euphemistically called "economicallyunderdeveloped" town of Duisburg is believed to be difficult.

Problematic, failed, Ghetto. Those were the terms when writing, reporting and broadcasting about Hochfeld.

"Why do you move here?" people do ask me a lot of times when i am telling them that I moved here from Bielefeld. "Why not?" is my reply. It seems as if the people living here lost faith in this quarters positive development. I came here, just as the majority of people here, as a stranger. The difference is: I did it voluntarily. Most of the migrants came here because of the awful conditions in their homeland and because of compatriots already living in Hochfeld.

An estimated 150+ different nationalities within 17000 inhabitants. Once around the world.

In this long-term photographic project I am trying to portray my quarter.